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 the ^ broadly impressed between the eyes, in the^ sometimes slightly 

 grooved in medial line; antennae rather robust, bristle-haired, slight- 

 ly thickened distally, their third joint a little longer than the second, 

 the fourth as long as broad, the following feebly increasingly transverse, 

 so that the next-last become l^ times as broad as long; distal joint short, 

 hardly as long as the two preceding joints together. Pronotum nearly as 

 broad as elytra, a little broader than long, feebly narrowing posteriorly, 

 with anteriorly slightly rounded sides bearing a few bristles, feebly con- 

 vex, finely and rather densely punctated, the middle-line in ^ feebly, 

 in the (5^ more strongly grooved; elytra a little longer than pronotum, rath- 

 er fine end dense granulate-punctation. The first three free dorsal joints 

 of abdomen finely and not densely punctated, less densely than in aequata , 

 the fourth with scattered, the fifth with simple punotation. L. 3.5-4 mm. 



In the 5" the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen transversally trun- 

 cated, and the margin is by three feeble carves made slightly uneven, there- 

 by together with the slightly prominent corners forming four very feeble 

 teeth. The next-last ventral joint is somewhat elongatw and rounded off 

 at tip. 



Not rare under b«rk, moss and fungi on tindery stubs; distributed e&- 

 peclally in woodland regions and most frequent in the eutumn. North and 

 Central Europe. 



23. Subgenus Hy:^roeci& Muls. at Ray. 

 BO. n. debilis Er. 



('Srlchs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 321; Gen. Spec. Staph. S4; Kraatz Ins. E. II. 



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